Rachel Lee Flesher (they.she.he) is an intimacy coordinator for film recognized on the SAG-AFTRA intimacy coordinator registry, an intimacy director for theatre, a SAG-AFTRA stunt performer, a fight director and fight instructor with the Fight directors Canada, a gender and sex educator, actor, teacher, and director.
Rachel is passionately engaged in making safer sets and stages around the world by helping to produce best practices and procedures for Intimate and hyper-exposed content in multiple areas of film, tv, theatre, and education. Currently Rachel is part of the collaboration team advising SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators. You can see Flesher's Intimacy Coordination on HUNTERS (season 2), FARGO (season 4), GLOW (season 3), THE CHI (season 3 and 6), and over 25 other shows on HULU, FX, FOX, CBS, SHOWTIME, NETFLIX, HBO, Apple, and more.
Rachel is a Certified Fight Director and Certified Fight Instructor with the Fight Directors Canada, an Instructor with Tactics on Set, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. Rachel’s Fight Direction and Intimacy Direction have been featured at Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Shakespeare Dallas, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, and many more.
Rachel has been grateful for the opportunity to travel the world teaching workshops and being on panels on combat for stage and screen, intimacy and consent for actors, directors, producers, writers, production teams, lawyers, educators, dancers, singers, and devised theatre makers. Flesher has also collaborated and consulted with multiple university programs to create consent forward, best practices for intimacy and violence in the classroom and in production. With a deep love for teaching and learning Rachel has mentored many fight directors and intimacy directors and coordinators in the industry today and is excited to continue to do so as the industry grows to be more inclusive. Through studying mental health first aid, trauma, abuse, survival, and healing, and collaborating with other directors, psychologists, and mental health experts, Rachel is developing techniques to help actors safely portray trauma and abuse on screen and stage - Traumaturgy. Rachel specializes in working with trans and non-binary actors, queer intimacy, and telling stories of nonconsensual intimacy. Their goal is to help create safer spaces for actors to do daring work through consent culture.
